Recommend me some Les Paul type lightweights......

Dave_Mc

My Edwards is heavier than I'd like it to be ) Admittedly, it's my only Les Paul-style guitar, so the others are probably worse, but even still, I wouldn't really call it "light". I'm a wuss, though.

Evildurka

The one I had was very light compared to my 1995 les paul standard

Deijavoo

When you say "had", why did you move it on?

Richardj

Contoured Mahogany body - check.

Set Mahogany body - check.

Ebony 'board - check.

ToM bridge - check.

Two alnico 'buckers - check.

Lightweight and comfortable - check.

Look away now!

johnonguitar

That Billy Gibbons Les Paul is like a piece of balsa wood

richardhomer

johnonguitar;771323" said:

That Billy Gibbons Les Paul is like a piece of balsa wood

Wasn't there one of these in the Classifieds a while back? It was a bit of a bargain IIRC

Grunfeld

crunchman said:

p90fool said:

When I have back trouble now I just go to a sports physio and pay whatever it costs, it's almost always a real, fixable mechanical problem which no amount of laying on of hands or spiritual readings will help.

I used to see an Osteopath.  That is definitely mechanical.  Sometimes he would click something back into place and it would immediately be better.

Once the initial problems are sorted though, you need to get your posture right and build up the muscles in your back and shoulders otherwise you keep going back.  Prevention is definitely better than cure.

There is a technique of spinal manipulation that osteopaths and chiropractors specialise in (and to be fair they should be pretty good at it), and these days lots of physios use it too.  It is very useful at fixing a common type of simple mechanical back problem.  Chiropractors have earned a reputation for using this one technique on every problem; osteopaths used to be like this (less so these days); physios used the technique least of all but are using it more frequently these days.

Imagine taking your guitar to a chiro-tech, an osteo-tech, and a physio-tech and the problem is the action is too high and it buzzes when you lower the strings.

Imagine the chiro-tech is someone who specialises in adjusting truss rods.  And for quite a few guitars this is exactly the fix required.  But this treatment is the only one you'll ever get from the chiro-tech because in his manual of guitar problems (which is written in a language that the others know isn't scientific) the truss rod is the source of every problem a guitar can have. 

The osteo-tech is really good at adjusting truss rods too.  And there will a probably be a little truss rod tweak every session.  But he or she will think beyond the truss rod and knows it's not the source of every guitar problem.

The physio-tech can also adjust truss rods.  Many physios even have that little truss rod adjusting tool that the chiros and osteos use which makes adjustments quickly, but they've also got other ways to adjust a truss rod.  And they have many other tools for lots of the problems which guitars can have.  And ultimately they know when people like ArchtopDave are required to rip the guts out of the electrics or to give the thing a re-fret. 

It's not a perfect analogy but hope that helps de-mystify some of the differences

jimmyd

+1 for the merits of a decent sports massage.

Don't want to sound like a dick but I always thought you can't really ever get the Les Paul thump without having a heavy mahogany body behind it.